I feel sorry for any blind person who tries to read the Braille on this sparkplug
So, since the Eeveelution well is apparently run dry, we now turn to the Regis. Remember them? Ancient golems of various hard materials? Well, now here's one made out of fucking lightning.
What really gets me is the name - before, the English translation adapted the Japanese names literally, except since Regiice would look weird, they removed the i, so it's "Reg-ice" instead of "Regi-ice" like in Japanese. That breaks the pattern of the others and I hate it, but what did they do here? The opposite! Instead of "Reg-eleki" it's "Regi-eleki".
As I said about Regice, why not Regifrost or something? And here, how about Regivolt? You didn't even use the actual type's name anymore! "Eleki" is already different from "Electric" so why not go all the way and change it to something that flows better!?
The design is fine, like a big light-bulb with electricity coming out of it, but I'm too tilted by the name and bastardization of the original Regi concept to care.
As I said about Regice, why not Regifrost or something? And here, how about Regivolt? You didn't even use the actual type's name anymore! "Eleki" is already different from "Electric" so why not go all the way and change it to something that flows better!?
The design is fine, like a big light-bulb with electricity coming out of it, but I'm too tilted by the name and bastardization of the original Regi concept to care.
Overall: 2/10
Is this the first electric pokemon that's actually "electricity", rather than some sort of thing that can produce current. They could have done better on this concept.
ReplyDeleteEven Mario Oddyssey did better.
I agree that electricity breaks continuity with the regis, unless Regigigas is the last Avatar or something and learned lightning-bending. Since Regieleki represents the Modern era, I guess electricity is the best representative? Maybe a Ground-type Regiplastic would be better (Electric resistance/One Piece reference), or maybe a Psychic-type Regidata (possible synergy with Porygon)? At any rate, I also agree with Pim in that GF probably saw Mario Odyssey and thought "I like the noise Mario makes when he bzzaps through electric wires, let's make that a Pokemon!" To fix its name, I submit "Regitricity" as an option, though it will take away from Toxtricity's badass name.
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